What is bulgy eye surgery? What's different about our bulgy eye surgery? In order to understand what makes EFIL unique, a basic understanding of what bulging eyes are.
Orbital
bone is the bone that makes up what is commonly referred to as the eye socket.
When the eye socket is shallow, usually a result of congenital factors, due to
the lack of sufficient space the eyeball can be forced outward, slightly
protruding. This eye protrusion is called many things: bulgy eyes,
exophthalmos, proptosis, among others.
Shallow
orbits (shallow eye sockets) are not the only cause of eye protrusion. Eye
protrusion can also be an indirect result of thyroid disorder.
When
problems occur in the thyroid glands, orbital tissue swelling is common. The
thyroid glands produce more thyroid hormone than is necessary leading to a
condition called thyrotoxicosis. One of the symptoms of thyrotoxicosis is the
swelling of tissue in the orbit, pushing the eyes outwards and making the eyes
protrude.
Eye
protrusion due to congenitally shallow orbits tend to cause relatively mild
functional and cosmetic problems. When eye protrusion is a result of
thyrotoxicosis, the consequences may be more severe. Swelling behind the eye
can cause intraocular pressure (pressure behind the eye) to increase. This not
only forces the outwards, but can cause functional problems and negatively
affect vision. In extreme cases, high intraocular pressure can damage the optic
nerve and cause blindness.
High
intraocular pressure can be dangerous. Orbital decompression surgery is one
surgical option for dealing with it.
Orbital bone is shaved down, or sometimes broken and cut out, and
orbital tissue is removed. This creates space in the orbit in turn lowering
intraocular pressure.
The main
objective is the lowering of the dangerously high intraocular pressure. For
this reason, orbital decompression surgery has been considered an
"emergency" operative procedure. As orbital bone is broken, there
tends to be a lot of bleeding, and the procedure itself is known to take
between 5-6 hours. Because of its invasive nature, unlike other eye surgeries,
a week-long stay in the hospital is not unheard of.
When
intraocular pressure is not a factor, and the procedure is purely aesthetic,
expansion of the space in the orbital room becomes the main purpose. The ethmoid bone (the bone that separates the sinus and the brain) may be convex in shape, and the actual orbital room may be shallow. When this is the case, bone is not cut out, it is cut and simply pushed in. Orbital tissue is likewise removed. Since the tissue is not swollen, the procedure is safer as there are less risk factors, less bleeding and less invasiveness. Since there is less to remove,
the procedure is much shorter when compared to orbital decompression, and
recovery time is faster.
To sum up
the difference between two procedures, orbital decompression surgery is an
invasive surgical procedure with the aim of cutting away at orbital bone and swollen orbital tissue
for the purpose of lowering dangerously high intraocular pressure.
Orbital
expansion surgery removes orbital tissue and pushes orbital bone inwards to expand the
orbital room and make room for the eye to be set more appropriately in the eye
and improve aesthetic proportion in the face.
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